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SLRs drive digital camera sales surge

News Samsung and Panasonic also debuted to the tune of 43,000 and 36,000 SLRs, respectively, giving the newcomers 405,000, or 8 per cent, of the 5.3 million total SLRs shipped. Its 31 per cent growth -- a 578,000 camera increase to 2.46 million in 2006...

4 April 2007, 8:42

iPhone sales 'wake up' smart phones

News Latest stats from analyst house Canalys show Apple cut itself a 6.5 per cent chunk of the smart phone market in the last quarter of 2007, flogging more than 2,320,000 iPhones now available in a 16GB version -- and stepping into line two places...

Tags: cent, quarter, analyst, portfolio

6 February 2008, 9:28

News.blog: Pandora revamps MSN radio

News In contrast, MSN Radio's monthly visitors dropped 9 per cent to 2.5 million from October 2005 to October 2006. According to ComScore, monthly visitors to Yahoo's Launchcast dropped 20 per cent to 6.8 million from October 2005 to the same period a...

23 November 2006, 9:17

Online poker most addictive Internet app

News In terms of audience, MSN Messenger came top with more than 14.7 million users (48 per cent of the UK Internet population) during November 2006. Fifth on the list is Apple's iTunes media player, with 5.6 million users -- 18 per cent of the total UK...

17 January 2007, 9:26

UK online shopping soars to £8.2bn

News New figures released by the Royal Mail this week reveal 70 million items ordered online were delivered in the run-up to Christmas 2005 -- a 40 per cent increase on the 55 million items ordered online in 2004.

14 February 2006, 9:17

E-spending up in UK this Christmas

News The Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG) said on Wednesday that British e-commerce spending was up 40 per cent year-on-year in October. Hitwise, which tracks UK Web traffic, agrees, It reported on Wednesday that visits to retail sites rose 5...

25 November 2005, 9:49

How about a 20-inch laptop?

News Of that number, 38.5 million, or 52.3 per cent, will be wide-screen formats, Shim said. About 35.1 million, 47.7 per cent, of laptops shipped will be the current standard square configuration. In 2009, when IDC has predicted 114.6 million laptops...

25 October 2005, 10:57

New generation abandons TV for Internet

News Nine million households now have broadband connections in the UK -- up 63 per cent between 2004 and 2005 -- with the cost of services over 1Mbps falling from an average of around £41 to £16 per month.

11 August 2006, 10:05

UK boasts cheaper and faster broadband

News Broadband analyst Point Topic estimates broadband penetration will hit 19 million households by 2012 -- or 74 per cent of the country. Average broadband costs have dropped 36 per cent in the last four years, according to price comparison site uSwitch.

Tags: point, connection, cent, broadband

4 February 2008, 8:53

Web 2.0 sites enjoy traffic explosion

News Other sites crashing into the UK top 50 on the back of users' hard graft include News Corp-owned social-networking giant MySpace (with an increase of 467 per cent to 5.2 million visitors), video-sharing upstart YouTube -- which officially launched...

13 September 2006, 9:32

US games console ownership on the up

News Media research company Nielsen released a study on Monday showing that the number of US households supplementing their televisions with games consoles has risen more than 18 per cent since 2004. That's an 18.5 per cent expansion, and Nielsen...

6 March 2007, 9:54

'Grand Theft Auto IV' launches amid great expectation

News By year's end, Pachter estimates 5 to 6 million PS3 owners will have picked up the game, yielding an attachment rate of 35 per cent, and 6 to 7 million units headed to the Xbox 360 gamers, a 30 per cent attach rate.

Tags: base, rate, copies, xbox

29 April 2008, 9:28

News.blog: Apple reports record Mac sales

News Mac shipments grew 41 per cent, while iPod shipments grew 12 per cent.iPhone sales were 717,000 during the quarter, which was about what we had expected.iPhone sales were much lower due to the supply issues Apple ran into around the middle of May...

Tags: iphone, sales, cent, quarter

22 July 2008, 8:37

The Great Facebook Race takes off

News But Facebook's popularity has exploded during the past 12 months, with year-on-year user growth of more than 2,000 per cent. MySpace grew by 149 per cent in the same period. A similar picture emerges globally, although Facebook's growth of 270 per...

2 August 2007, 9:17

Oil costs to boost Christmas online sales

News Global television shipments are expected to increase to 176.1 million units in 2005, up by 5.8 per cent from 166.4 million in 2004, according to analyst firm iSuppli. With gasoline prices recently hitting record high levels, and home heating costs...

28 November 2005, 9:02